Teaching Young Children » learning centers http://peggybroadbent.com/blog Peggy Broadbent Blog Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:31:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Programs for Six-, Seven-, and Eight-Year-Olds http://peggybroadbent.com/blog/programs-for-six-seven-and-eight-year-olds-91319.html http://peggybroadbent.com/blog/programs-for-six-seven-and-eight-year-olds-91319.html#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 13:45:04 +0000 Peggy B. http://peggybroadbent.com/blog/?p=319 What programs in my combined first and second grades provide the natural learning of childhood? Exploration, discovery, and experimentation are part of self-initiated learning stemming from children’s great strives to understand and absorb their world. Learning centers supply an enriched environment that keeps their minds active and allows them to strengthen and expand their concepts, the necessary equipment for good progress in the academic areas. So, a daily Choice Time in the math, science, art, writing, and book centers was very important. A happy productive time.

Then what about the instructional programs, those that would allow them to grow and still keep their love of learning that they arrived with? It was hoped that each program would be appealing by allowing children to identify with others, enhance and broaden their thinking, and enable them to understand and accept purposes for learning. Programs addressed a wide range of intellectual levels and abilities without limits for achievement. Programs that would, along with the learning centers, reinforce and extend their concepts.

So my challenge and hope was to never, or try never, to turn them off. Then I know their learning and growth could really accelerate.

Read more about these programs in my book, Early Childhood Programs: Opportunities for Academic, Cognitive, and Personal Success. Included is a web site where programs can be downloaded for use in a classroom. Also, see 7 reviews on www.amazon.com

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